Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥"Who Else Is Investing" Isn't Lazy, But Actually Smart

Apr 12, 2026

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5 min read

🔥"Who Else Is Investing" Isn't Lazy, But Actually Smart

Learnings from 6k+ transactions, and why Seed Investing is like picking vintage Rolex watches

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥University Ranking by Exit Values, How to Build a Personal Knowledge Hub, Auto-Discovery of What to Automate & More

Apr 7, 2026

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14 min read

💥University Ranking by Exit Values, How to Build a Personal Knowledge Hub, Auto-Discovery of What to Automate & More

New insights from Stanford, Altimeter, Carta, Andrej Karpathy & more

Andre Retterath

Resources

Apr 5, 2026

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10 min read

🔥World's Hottest Startups in April 2026

Measured by Investor Interest on Harmonic's Platform: Who Gets Most Profile Views?

Andre Retterath

Essays

Full Guide to Set Up OpenClaw and Automate VC Workflows

Apr 2, 2026

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11 min read

Full Guide to Set Up OpenClaw and Automate VC Workflows

Step-by-Step Guide with Integrations for Meeting Prep, Company Research, Competitive Landscape Mapping & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥How to Become a VC Partner, Importance of Sourcing vs Picking, Firm vs Fund Focus & More

Mar 31, 2026

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14 min read

💥How to Become a VC Partner, Importance of Sourcing vs Picking, Firm vs Fund Focus & More

New Data from Stanford, a16z, Redpoint, Odin (..)

Andre Retterath

Resources

Mar 29, 2026

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3 min read

We Need Your Help

Join hundreds of investors shaping the future of VC via the 2026 DDVC Landscape survey

Andre Retterath

Essays

Mar 26, 2026

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8 min read

💥10 Takeaways from the DDVC Summit 2026

The Agentic VC Firm Isn't the Future - It's Now!

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More

Mar 24, 2026

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10 min read

💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More

20 years of exit data just broke several VC myths. Here is what actually predicts a billion-dollar outcome.

Andre Retterath

Resources

🔥 The Impact of Iran War on Private and Public Valuations - Here's the State of the Market in March 2026

Mar 22, 2026

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14 min read

🔥 The Impact of Iran War on Private and Public Valuations - Here's the State of the Market in March 2026

Data from Stripe, IQM Quantum, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

We Ran the Benchmarks and Migrated to Harmonic

Mar 19, 2026

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9 min read

We Ran the Benchmarks and Migrated to Harmonic

What the Data Showed, What We Decided, and Where We’re Pointing our Energy Instead

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More

Mar 17, 2026

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15 min read

💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More

+ What If AI Makes Every Moat Temporary? Research from Stanford, Carta, Bessemer (..)

Andre Retterath, +1

Essays

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

Mar 12, 2026

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7 min read

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

10 Takeaways From Our DDVC x Munich Meetup That Will Transform Your Workflows

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

Funding Up 64%, Hiring Down 10%, First VC Shakeout Since Dotcom (..)

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Mar 8, 2026

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13 min read

🔥15 Hottest Startups in March 2026

Stealth & Startup Profiles With Most Investor Views on Harmonic Right Now

Andre Retterath

Essays

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

What Do You Actually Do With Traditional SaaS Portfolio Companies in a World That's Permanently Repriced Them?

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

Mar 3, 2026

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14 min read

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

New Research from Stanford, Odin, Carta, SaaStr & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Mar 1, 2026

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4 min read

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Learnings from Accel, Atomico, Balderton, BlackRock, Earlybird, LocalGlobe, NFX, Point Nine, Tribe Capital & Others

Andre Retterath

Essays

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

Feb 26, 2026

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13 min read

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

How AI Reshapes the Venture Capital Org Chart From the Bottom Up

Andre Retterath

Insights

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

Feb 24, 2026

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11 min read

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

New Research from Theory Ventures, Carta, Growth Unhinged, Pave & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

Feb 22, 2026

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15 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

SpaceX, xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

Feb 19, 2026

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13 min read

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

The Evolution From Data Silos to Full Context to Agentic Abstraction

Andre Retterath

Insights

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

Feb 17, 2026

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13 min read

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

New Research from MSCI Wealth, Bessemer, Carta, Odin & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

Feb 15, 2026

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18 min read

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

30 Min Setup Guide, Workflow Examples Like Inbound Deal Flow Processing, Portfolio Monitoring, LP Comms & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Feb 12, 2026

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4 min read

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Secure 33% Discount for the Virtual DDVC Summit 23-25th March 2026

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

Feb 10, 2026

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12 min read

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

New Research from JP Morgan, Carta, Growth Unhinged & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Andre Retterath

🔥"Who Else Is Investing" Isn't Lazy, But Actually Smart

💥University Ranking by Exit Values, How to Build a Personal Knowledge Hub, Auto-Discovery of What to Automate & More

🔥World's Hottest Startups in April 2026

Full Guide to Set Up OpenClaw and Automate VC Workflows

💥How to Become a VC Partner, Importance of Sourcing vs Picking, Firm vs Fund Focus & More

We Need Your Help

💥10 Takeaways from the DDVC Summit 2026

💡Billion-Dollar Founder Patterns, Fund Return Analysis, Tech Hiring Surge & More

🔥 The Impact of Iran War on Private and Public Valuations - Here's the State of the Market in March 2026

We Ran the Benchmarks and Migrated to Harmonic

💡Where LPs Invest, How VCs Generate Alpha, Hyped Funding Rounds and Success, Concentration in Private Markets & More

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

🔥15 Hottest Startups in March 2026

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

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